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History of Forensic Science Major Developments in the History of Forensic Science 700 AD: Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures. 1000: Roman courts determined that bloody palm prints were used to

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History of Forensic Science<br>
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Major Developments in the History of Forensic Science 700 AD: Chinese used fingerprints to establish identity of documents and clay sculptures.
1000: Roman courts determined that bloody palm prints were used to frame a man in his brother’s murder.
1149: King Richard of England introduced the idea of the coroner to investigate questionable deaths.
1248: A murder in China was solved when flies were attracted to invisible blood residue on the sword of a man in the community.
1514: Earliest known use of blood spatter evidence.
1598: Fidelus was first to practice forensic medicine in Italy.
1668: analysis of blowfly infestation of rotting meat allows Francesco Redi to refute the hypothesis of “spontaneous generation” of maggots<br>
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1670: Anton Van Leeuwenhoek constructed the first high-powered microscope.
1776: Paul Revere identified the body of General Joseph Warren based on the false teeth he had made for him.
1784: John Toms was convicted of murder on the basis of the torn edge of a wad of paper in a pistol matching a piece of paper in his pocket.
1810: First recorded use of questioned document analysis involving chemical test for a particular dye
1816: A farm laborer is convicted of murder based upon impression evidence
1840: Forensic toxicology is first used to convict Marie Lafarge, by use of the March test (detects arsenic compounds), of poisoning her husband.
1856: Herschel uses thumbprints on documents to identify workers
1859: Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen developed the science of spectroscopy. Major Developments in the History of Forensic Science, continued<br>